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DECEMBER 11, 2023

“Pay transparency is here (or coming) depending on where you’re located and where you’re hiring people. It’s kind of like a snowball rolling down the hill getting bigger and bigger. It’s something to really stop and think about and prepare for now, because it’s not easy. I think the biggest thing around transparency is thinking about what your education plan is for your people.” Megan Nail, Vice President, Total Rewards Practice at NFP We’re Only H

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

So we’re looking at how the words are actually formed. When you’re hiring for a technology manager, what does that mean? Are you looking for a technical technology manager? Are you looking for someone who grew up in the chops of software development, knows all of the full delivery life cycle, or are you looking for someone who’s more project focused?

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UpstartHR

OCTOBER 4, 2023

“ I do think that there is so much hidden talent inside our organizations, and we don’t even realize it. How do you find that? How do you leverage that? How do you build and develop that? This is what I find so interesting about the skills conversation. Everything that we’ve just been talking, about the potential and impact for any one of us is huge.” Heidi Perloff, SVP, Global HR Strategic Initiatives and Delivery Solutions at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

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UpstartHR

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hi all! It’s been a minute. Working on a lot of fun stuff between the latest book , HR Summer School , regular livestream events, a ton of speaking at HR conferences and industry events, and so on. But I still get questions pretty regularly and love addressing them when I can ( here’s the archive you can skim ). Here’s one that came in recently: I’m looking for my next HR job.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

And so that doesn’t happen overnight. But over time, as people bought into it and we started to see over the course of one year, we gave the business back 1500 interviews. Imagine the extra time that was available for our product managers. They could do their job, and then when the quality of hire goes up with that, you start to get this [positive] cycle.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

I’m really excited we are a fully remote organization. It’s why I get to do the work I do from Hawaii. It does mean I have really early mornings, so be aware of what you’re signing up for, but I get to work fully remote. In supporting fully remote organizations, we have to be incredibly intentional about the culture and the way we work.

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JULY 24, 2023

On Thursday, August 10th, George Rogers and I will be hosting a special livestream to look at our brand new data on Performance, Engagement, and Culture Enablement (PEACE). Based on 1,000 global workers, this study has some incredible insights on how employees feel about their experiences at work today, what employers need to do to support them, and more.

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JULY 23, 2023

In August I’ll be hosting the DisruptHR HSV event. This event is open to HR professionals that want to think differently about the profession, grow their network, and challenge the status quo. We’ll have multiple speakers covering everything from coaching and performance to culture and DEIB topics. If you’re within a few hours of Huntsville (we already have registrants from Nashville and Atlanta!

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JULY 6, 2023

“We have 1700 people at our company. That’s 1700 different opinions, needs, journeys. So at Getty Images we create and we measure and we monitor engagement opportunities to strengthen a work culture where people belong and they can do their best work.” Marie Potter, Senior Director, Culture & Development, Getty Images We’re Only Human — Episode 161 Defining the problem is a big step towards finding a solution.

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UpstartHR

JUNE 21, 2023

“I was deleting 24 Google Calendar placeholders one day and manually copy/pasting new hire email addresses into the 17 ones we were going to keep. It was at least 30 minutes of hundreds of just mindless clicks. And I said, wait a minute. I’m gonna figure out how to do this [better]. So I looked at our Google Calendar integration, saw that I could both delete calendar events and add participants to calendar events.

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JUNE 12, 2023

“If I had to put a bet on the future, where we’re headed is about understanding potential future performance and what drives and drains people. I think that’s really where I see TA going longer term. We’ve seen success around using some of that psychometric data to really upskill folks into engineers that wouldn’t not necessarily have been on technical paths.

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UpstartHR

MAY 23, 2023

“And speaking of changing expectations and what’s socially acceptable, this challenge of ghosting is going through the roof, and I’ve got bad news for you. It’s gonna get worse. When we look at the data on ghosting, we see that it’s actually age correlated. So someone who is 25 is more likely than someone who’s 35, who’s more likely someone who’s 45, and so on.

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UpstartHR

APRIL 17, 2023

“It’s a big differentiator. And I think the organizations that figure it out–the organizations that get it right–are the ones that are gonna be able to attract people. And I think organizations that don’t are gonna have more of a struggle because that becomes more important as we think about just making conscious choices: how do we wanna spend our days?

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UpstartHR

MARCH 7, 2023

There’s certainly the opportunity cost that comes with assigning someone from your learning team or frankly finding anybody to work on this if it’s not gonna fix the problem. There’s also the frustration that comes with that. I’ve experienced that personally and as a leader of learning professionals. I t is really frustrating to spend your time and effort doing something that you think is not gonna work.

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UpstartHR

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

 ”So there’s a massive amount of insights coming from this. We measure things like net promoter score — we have an average NPS of around 73, which as we all know is pretty great. And a big one for me is that 41% of people we actually go on to hire actually have used the platform once or more than once. That’s a really big figure to show this is actually supporting employees to apply with us and attracting them to us and being successful in getting a role with us.” L

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UpstartHR

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

 ”The joke is pilots get in the plane, they read their checklist, and they take off. They push the [autopilot] button and sit back and wait for the plane to land itself. But when something goes wrong, suddenly the pilot’s got to take control. And then everybody’s life’s in that pilot’s hands. I think autopilot turned off for compensation people 18 months ago.” Bryan Briscoe, VP Global Compensation at Marriott International We’re Only Human — Epis

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Over the last year as companies struggled to find good people to hire and fought at the same time to keep their best staff, I knew there had to be a story there. I began digging into the data and found some surprising and potentially alarming details: there is a real talent shortage. I began writing about my findings and soon realized that this was a problem that begged for solutions, so I gathered stories of companies that are hiring and keeping their people in creative ways.

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UpstartHR

JANUARY 18, 2023

We can talk about DEI and belonging in that space. We can talk about culture, but really those powerful impacts that can happen internally and externally are really dictated on the leadership. When I think of leadership, I believe leadership is an example of love, trust, and grace. . George Rogers, Chief Culture Officer, Lighthouse Research & Advisory.

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UpstartHR

DECEMBER 12, 2022

“Our main priorities right now are not unlike all people leaders. We’re focused on hiring and we’re focused on retention. On the hiring front, it’s less about volume hiring. I think that everyone’s slowing down just a little bit. With this economy we’re focused on smart hiring and making sure that we’re bringing in the right people for the right roles.

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UpstartHR

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

“One of our ramp agents interacted with our CEO during one of his station visits and mentioned that he had taught himself how to code and that he was interested in technology. Our CEO was able to come back and connect him with recruiters and with our career mobility center [to] learn about a new program that we were just standing up. That employee actually moved from a ramp agent into this program, and our CEO was the one to call and make him an offer.” .

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UpstartHR

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“One day he challenged me and he said, ‘Listen, I want you to help our 477 store directors be great. But listen, I don’t want you to go and teach them about engagement. They don’t need like a history lesson. But I want you to teach them how to be engaging.’ As I’ve navigated through various organizations, what I realized is that most organizations have the same challenges around manager performance.” Kamaria Scott, Manager Enablement Expert at Accenture.

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UpstartHR

OCTOBER 13, 2022

“What I’ve seen over the last six to 12 months is that companies are literally craving this information to understand: are they still competitive? Because they’ve made so many moves, whether it was with pay or benefits, they want to understand where they stack as it relates to their competition.” . Terry Terhark, Founder and CEO, NXT Thing RPO.

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UpstartHR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And so we experimented and said, let’s have a trial run at being a manager. We took about 25 people that wanted to be a manager as a cohort. We said, okay, for a period of six to nine months, we would give you a small team you’d be responsible to learn how to interview and make hiring decisions. Then you get to decide whether or not you want to continue the manager path or not.

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UpstartHR

AUGUST 29, 2022

“I guarantee there is a direct correlation between a fantastic culture to business success. They are always together. I would say that the strong culture is the insurance policy of every business.” Ronni Zehavi, CEO, HiBob. We’re Only Human — Episode 147. What if we had a way to shield our businesses from unnecessary turnover, disinterested staff, and other similar challenges?

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UpstartHR

AUGUST 19, 2022

“When we select leaders, what we have found is leaders may have great, innovative ideas. They may be very driven to achieve. But if they’re not inspiring people, if they’re not demonstrating those interpersonal qualities that people see them as servant leaders, we’ve noticed that people are not willing to follow them. So we really emphasize that [serving] is exactly the quality that we want to see in leaders.” Ji-Yun Kang, Leadership Assessment and Selection, Mayo C

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UpstartHR

AUGUST 11, 2022

“The first thing is 100% look for difference [when mentoring]. If you are only looking for more of the same, you are hurting yourself. Cloning was bad in Star Wars, and cloning is bad in real life. The second one is related: get away from the rock stars and the duds when you are mentoring.” Lt. Col. Chaveso “Chevy” Cook, PhD, Executive Director, MilitaryMentors.org. .

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UpstartHR

AUGUST 4, 2022

“The more that we could be pushing that on the business side to say beyond revenue and profitability, what is the quality metric? What is the wellbeing metric? Obviously, employee engagement many companies measure. Are we measuring the investments in learning that we’re putting out there for our people, even if they are people that end up leaving, if we’re improving the future employability of a workforce, surely that’s a good business and society metric.” Bhushan

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UpstartHR

JULY 11, 2022

“I think the danger that we tend to run as people analytics teams is that we’re not willing to take slightly bolder stances and say, “Hey, we have a better collective picture of the labor market. We have a better collective picture of what enterprise trends and behaviors are like.” We need to give strategic guidance and not just be turning over data products.” Zach Frank, Senior Manager of People Analytics, Freeman Company (formerly at Aramark).

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UpstartHR

JUNE 10, 2022

“Oftentimes they’re looking for a quick fix. But what I will say is those that are doing [hiring] well and really moving the needle are those that are looking at this issue holistically. What is our employment brand in the market? Who are we competing with in our market? How does our total compensation package compete? Do we know how to sell to candidates?

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UpstartHR

MAY 19, 2022

“How can you build things that are as small as they can be so that you can plug and play and you can pivot and change? The way that I think about manifesting that in talent programs is thinking about more of a skills culture. If we have the skill of adapting and coping, for example, and we know that’s a critical element in a lot of areas of our organization.

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APRIL 26, 2022

“I think the the one stat that came out of this research, that nine out of 10 employees would be more likely to stay with their employer if they had this benefit, I was just kind of blown away.” Rob Whalen, CEO, PTOExchange. We’re Only Human — Episode 140. One of the most common employee benefits is paid leave. Employers offer a variety of options, from more standard accrued leave during every pay period to a newer option for “unlimited PTO.” But how do people

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APRIL 12, 2022

“Stay interviews are highly under-rated, but yet can provide , so much insight to your employees and so much data. It’s almost like a secret weapon or secret tool that companies just don’t take advantage of.” Amanda Turbeville, Global Head of Human Resources, Montway Auto Transport. We’re Only Human — Episode 139. .

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UpstartHR

MARCH 31, 2022

“In 2021, our employees asked about 27,000 questions from the chatbot and completed about 16,000 transactions. So this year our focus is really on reinforcing awareness and adoption while we’re working to continue to improve our processes, our content, and our support structure.” Nicole Sloan, Employee Experience Leader, Kimberly Clark.

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UpstartHR

MARCH 21, 2022

“We’re talking ISO 45003 that I highly recommend people look at. Or you can talk to people like me who can break it down into regular language. Those three components of psychological health and safety, which are the structure, the environment and the expectations of behavior.” Dr. Allessandria Polizzi. We’re Only Human — Episode 137.

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UpstartHR

MARCH 9, 2022

If we want to transform and do things differently, we always have a big “why.” We have a purpose we are going after. When I think about transformation, I say, how would you make a preferred way of working which will create delightful experiences for people at the center of that change? Shalu Manan, HR Transformation Strategist. We’re Only Human — Episode 136.

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MARCH 3, 2022

Recently I had the pleasure of joining Troy Vermillion on Eight Hour Grind , a show that looks at work trends. The topic? Performance management. . After sharing with Troy some of the best ideas from our research, he sprung a surprise on me: my very own performance review! If you click to watch the video below, it will auto-jump to the time where the performance review begins.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Have a question you’d like answered? Just shoot it our way at ben AT upstartHR DOT com and we’ll see if we can cover it in a future blog! Thank you so much for your insight! I ultimately would like to launch my own business as an HR consultant, with a focus on culture. Carrie. Hi Carrie! How neat! There’s always an opportunity for great service and support in this area.

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